Camus is a famous French writer and philosopher who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
Because he had been suffering from lung disease for a long time, he had profound thoughts about the existence and meaning of life. His thoughts are full of liberal humanitarianism and he is the "spiritual mentor" of many people.
Someone once wrote about the feeling of reading Camus:
"Life is hypocritical, absurd, and lonely, but we must act, be meaningful, and be happy. This is Our greatest freedom, our greatest resistance.”
1. About destiny: existence, struggle, freedom, happiness
① As long as I can embrace the world, the clumsiness of embracing does not matter. relation.
② There is no destiny that cannot be overcome with contempt.
③ The only real duty of a person born into this absurd world is to live, to realize his own life, his own resistance, his own freedom. A person cannot endure the cold or the cold forever. unfair.
④ Freedom should be an opportunity to make yourself better.
⑤ If you keep looking for what happiness is made of, you will never find happiness; if you keep looking for the meaning of life, you will never find the meaning of life. True happiness and meaning are rooted in life.
⑥ In the middle of winter, I finally knew that there was an invincible summer in me.
⑦ The real salvation is not victory after fighting, but the ability to find the strength of life and peace of mind in suffering.
⑧ We always see the burden on him. And Sisyphus tells us that the highest piety is to deny the gods and remove stones. He also considers himself happy. This world that has no master since then is not a desert to Sisyphus. Every particle on this boulder and every pile of mineral sand on this mountain forms a world only for Sisyphus. His struggle to get to the top of the mountain is grounding in itself.
⑨ The distance between my soul and me is so far, but my existence is so real.
⑩ As long as a person learns to remember, he will no longer be lonely. Even if you only live in the world for one day, you can live alone in a prison for a hundred years with your memories without any difficulty.
2. About life: live with pain and embrace the present
? The most important thing is not to cure, but to live with pain.
? True generosity towards the future is to dedicate everything to the present.
? If you don’t despair of life, you won’t love life.
? Live, live with the cracks the world has given us, use your damaged palms to heal each other's scars, and stubbornly face happiness. Because no fate is a punishment for people, and as long as you try your best, you should be happy, embrace the light of the present, do not place hope on an illusory utopia, and be high-spirited, because survival itself is the most powerful resistance to absurdity.
? Real life appears within the tear. Life is tearing itself. True awakening comes from pain.
3. Regarding feelings: Just walk beside me and accompany me, no need to speak.
When I was young, I would ask all living beings for things beyond their capabilities: friendship will last forever, Enthusiasm continues. Now, I understand that I can only ask for what is within the other person's ability: just accompany me, no need to talk.
? Don’t walk behind me, because I may not lead the way; don’t walk in front of me, because I may not follow; please walk beside me and be my friend.
? Not being loved is just unlucky, but not being able to love is misfortune.
4. About truth, goodness, and knowledge
? In life, you should never act or cheat.
? Good intentions without knowledge can bring about the same damage as sin. If there is no true knowledge and insight, there will be no true kindness and noble benevolence.
21 Sad people have two reasons for being sad, either they have no knowledge or they have hope.
22 A person will always have some exaggerated and distorted ideas about things he does not understand.
23 All great actions and thoughts have a humble beginning.